Bug 465650

Summary:	media-gfx/shotwell depends on media-libs/gstreamer
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Raphaël Droz <raphael.droz+floss>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	graphics+disabled, jlec
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raphaël Droz 2013-04-12 09:14:40 UTC

The last version of shotwell free of the media-libs/gstreamer is now gone from the tree.

It's annoying that an image manager (or even a "media" manager) enforces a dependency
upon video or sound software.

People may perfectly want to use shotwell with images alone;
without wanting to install 3 new gstreamer packages.

It's all about choice, there you be a useflag for this.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ emerge -vp =media-gfx/shotwell-0.13.1-r2


Actual Results:  
The packages that would be merged:
(NS) media-libs/gstreamer
(NS) media-libs/gst-plugins-base
(N) media-libs/gst-plugins-good

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-12 14:16:38 UTC

Lots of gstreamer plugins provide support for image rendering and have nothing to do with sound rendering.